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Starting with a flying steamroller!
I did It! Finally, I have a blog going. Now to get to the serious business of getting it filled with art that sometimes provokes the mind and sometimes tickles it. I am going to start it with a post...
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ArtMRKT SF
There was some wicked work at ArtMRKT in San Francisco. It was a last min decision to go with a friend of a friend of a friend who was in town on a conference. He turned out to be an art fan and went...
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Teaching kids welding and torch cutting is a blast!
Being a welding teacher at an industrial arts school is just about the best job I have had. The kids are great and inspiring. I have been working with an amazing industrial arts school in West...
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NIMBY @ Maker Faire
Twice this year, NIMBY, one of the favorite Bay Area community arts spaces, kept hundreds of makers (young and old) busy using sheet metal tools to make a small and very cute toolbox at Maker Faire....
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Pipilotti Rist – Ever is Over all
This popped into my memory today. I remember seeing this on 2 huge screens in London, I think it was in the amazing Hauser and Wirth space, in an old bank in Picadilly. They projected this onto the...
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The showmanship of the Cardboard Institute of Technology.
Cardboard isn’t the most exciting of art materials to most people but when the folks at the Cardboard Institute of Technology get their hands on a project they really blow everyone else out the...
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Ore & Ingot – live metal casting performance.
My recent roller-coaster life has landed me in some hot metal. : ) Ore & Ingot in the middle of a live bronze pour performance. http://www.oreandingot.com Part of my new life in Bristol, is the...
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Interactive paintings from paper workshops at MIT.
More tech meets art from wonderfully clever people at a MIT paper workshop that evolved into this programmable painting. I love seeing the paper painting being taken down to reveal the guts of the...
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Fire breathing bridge in Vietnam!
This really is amazing. A bridge with some substantial thought into its design aesthetic and with flame effects too! Not just for driving over. Am loving the fire effects overhead while driving on...
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Instructables community fires off again : )
This post from Instructables made my day today. I love fire and have been working with it in some form or another over the past 20 years. This shopping trolley reuse is brilliant. Although maybe it...
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New bell for the Exploratorium.
Thanks to The Crucible for the pic. Check out their foundry classes. This short film follows the creation of a bell for the Exploratorium’s new home on the waterfront in San Francisco. Nick Diphillipo...
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Fire Tornados and cuttlefish casting.
Life is never boring. A recent job took me to Glastonbury festival for the first time in maybe 12 years; this time as a performing artist with a fire art installation. Arcadia Fire Tornado at...
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Flaming Lotus Girls in the Boxshop
Big Stumpy at the Boxshop The Flaming Lotus Girls are at it again. This year for Burning Man they are building a new sculpture, Xylophage, and as usual, it is being built at the Boxshop. A haven for...
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Mutoid Waste Company!
I have been a huge fan of the Mutoid Waste Company for over 20 years. Mutoids MUST stay! Check out this trailer for a documentary about them for an idea of what they were doing in Berlin in late 80′s....
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Music from guns with Pedro Reyes.
Pedro Reyes Pedro Reyes is a mexican artist who turns the weapons collected in his country into interactive musical artpiecesuo. This installation piece is a follow on from his other project “Shovels...
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Arty bike racks
I’ve been checking out all the art bike racks for years, as a long term cyclist, I’ve attached my precious to many different things to avoid her getting stolen. I love that Portland, Oregon has...
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